This is silly, if you buy the phone outright and its compatible with another carrier, you should be able to use it and its LTE network. Having Apple purposely block it, in order to protect the original carrier will indeed come to bite them in the ***.

And in the article the most upvoted comment:

But but but.. No excuses if this true I hope they get fined.

KiltedTim can live all he want in his Oh Almighty Apple dream world, but that doesn't mean he should be so opposed to people who bring negative things of Apple into the light.

If this whole 33 page thread wasn't allowed, it would have been removed a long time ago. By the Hosts.

Also, IF they remove it, I will gladly send a news item to well known tech sites. They will LOVE the fact the Oh So Consumer Friendly Apple shut down a 33 page thread on their forums discussing a situation that has recently gotten into the news (on tech sites).

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I have read the policy and Apple doesn't disallow these kinds of discussions.

The only person that is not abiding the terms of service are you, kind sir.

Is that it? Is that really all you have to say on this topic? You sound like a stuck record...

Look, if you don't like this thread or what's being said in it, then just ignore it, go and read something that interests you more, about which you have something meaningful to say. But this perpetual "read the TOS" line is just a tad pathetic...

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